220: The Death of Drusus, Beloved Brother

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Domina Tempora

Martini Fisher

135 episodes

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Domina Tempora by Martini Fisher descends into the beautiful and the forbidden. Each episode unearths how myth, philosophy, and power were crafted—and corrupted—across the ancient world. Through an unflinching, sensual lens, we revisit the women, gods, and ideas that shaped civilization’s desires and fears. History here is not gentle; it’s exquisite, dangerous, and alive.

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220: The Death of Drusus, Beloved Brother

Domina Tempora

29 minutes 9 seconds

2 years ago

220: The Death of Drusus, Beloved Brother

When word of his younger brother’s life-threatening illness reached him, Roman General Tiberius (later Emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus) who was in Pavia at the time, crossed the Alps like a man possessed. Without stopping day or night, he covered 200 Roman miles in a dangerous country. Tiberius' frantic dash across the Rhine from northwestern Italy to Germany to his brother's bedside evolved into a legend.

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